Apparently the government is in a dilemma: whether or not it should introduce a ban on smoking in public places. There is increasing public support for such a measure, but the government dithers. Why?
Well it seems that there is a sudden concern about the infringement of civil liberties, and the right of the individual to choose. After all we would not want to accuse this Labour government of promoting a Nanny State!
Why this sudden attack of conscience after over 7 years of attacking individual freedoms and promoting the Nanny State. We are being taxed as never before, and bullied into doing things which real freedom would not even contemplate. So-called parental choice in schools is a classic example of the Nanny State where the choice is often between unsuitable and completely unsuitable!
Yet the queue of government ministers waiting to send their children to private schools shows no sign of waning!
There are many more examples of a government that cares only in promoting the Nanny State. So why the attack of the jitters over a smoking ban, when this seems classic Labour territory of nanny knows best.
Surely it could be nothing so cynical as a government looking at the financial power of the tobacco industry, and the massive tax revenues being gained from smoking! Yet it is not difficult to recall the ban on cigarette advertising being applies selectively—apparently if you drove a Formula 1 car you could advertise, whilst others could not.
Nothing untoward going on there. After all that £1 million donation from Formula 1 to Labour party funds was handed back. So that‘s all right then!
It seems than when ever we put two words together—Labour and smoking—we start to smell a rat (rather than cigarette smoke). But everything is all right so long as our individual freedom is being protected..